Kyle Fox, formerly lead software engineer at the U.S. Air Force, has joined SOS International as chief technology officer. He will oversee the development and implementation of SOSi’s corporate tech strategy in support of its business portfolio within the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies, the company said...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, spoke with leaders of eight large primes to discuss strategic priorities for the Pentagon and business challenges facing the industry. DOD said Tuesday executives at BAE Systems, Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), HII (NYSE: HII), L3Harris ...
The State Department has approved a potential $380 million sale of advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, produced by Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), and related equipment to the government of Belgium. Raytheon’s missile systems division will serve as the principal contractor on the proposed foreign military sales agreement, which cover...
Gina Scinta, deputy chief technology officer at Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies, said government agencies should implement proper access controls to better safeguard data from cyberthreat actors, including the use of multifactor authentication and crypto-agile platforms. Scinta wrote that agencies should adopt multifactor authentication that depen...
Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) expects the first two of its six WorldView Legion satellites to arrive at their launch site in December and deploy to space the following month, Maxar President and CEO Dan Jablonsky said in the company’s third quarter earnings call. “The first two are essentially hardware ready, ready to ship downrange, waiti...
Westminster, Colorado-based Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has acquired Wovenware, an artificial intelligence and software development company, for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to expand its AI, 3D data production, software engineering and machine learning capabilities. Wovenware Co-Founders Christian Gonzalez and Carlos Melendez will conti...
NASA has launched an open and full competition for a potential nine-year, $1.93 billion follow-on contract to provide spaceflight mission support services to Johnson Space Center’s Flight Operations Directorate. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov says the next iteration of NASA’s Integrated Mission Operations Contract will include prep...
HII (NYSE: HII) reported net earnings of $138 million, or $3.44 per diluted share, for the third quarter of its 2022 fiscal year and registered a 12.3 percent growth in sales year-over-year to $2.6 billion. The military shipbuilder said Thursday that its Newport News Shipbuilding business and sales generated through its acquisition of Alion Sc...
Amy Rall, formerly a senior vice president at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been named president of the federal group at digital transformation services provider DMI. She will manage the Bethesda, Maryland-headquartered company’s portfolio of service offerings for federal civilian, defense, health and national secu...
It is fairly common knowledge that the defense industry has historically lagged behind the technological progress of the private sector. This is largely due to the intentional stance of allowing citizens to be the first adopters of new technologies while those in the defense sphere take a “wait and see” approach. This strategy ensures that...
